John Greenshields

John Greenshields (28 September 1795 – 24 April 1835) was a talented but short-lived Scottish sculptor.

Professor John Wilson referred to him as “an original genius” in his work Noctes Ambrosianae.

[2] He was born in Lesmahagow on 28 September 1795, the eldest of six sons (five surviving) to James Greenshields (1754-1838) a farmer,[3] and his wife, Betty Jack.

During this period he lived in a cottage on the Milton estate of Scott's friend, William Lockhart.

From around 1829 he returned to work from Willans and Scott visited him there at least twice,[5] the second in the company of John Gibson Lockhart.